I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bask in...reflected glory
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I certainly don’t want to bask in any reflected glory .
crowning glory
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The hotel’s crowning glory was a stunning roof garden.
morning glory
Old Glory
reflected glory
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I certainly don’t want to bask in any reflected glory .
restored to its former glory
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a Victorian fireplace restored to its former glory
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
crowning
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This is the crowning glory of Van Gogh's maize and corn fields.
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But the crowning glory of the book is Richard's unspeakable wife, Cordelia.
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Then comes the crowning glory of Frank's act, as he peels off his raincoat to reveal a smart suit underneath.
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But, the crowning glory of the building is the new conference suite which the architects created on the existing flat roof.
full
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Its full glory is not seen by paddling over it, however.
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Watch those in their full two-hour glory and you get a bucketful of pernicious politics and bad acting.
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During the next days, Philippa was to see the full glory of his departure, all show and pageantry.
great
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The Mac Larens, Bonds and Hugheses, all gleaners of greater glories , get their due too.
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His greatest glory is that he can not do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him.
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The castle's great glory - its massive, twin-towered gatehouse - maintains an air of impregnability.
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Thoughts around Salomon Brothers turned away from the greater glory of the firm and focused on self-preservation.
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As long as its greater glory is maintained, as long as the glitter continues into death and charidee, it will help out.
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The triumph came as a surprise to many fans ... but Ron Pickering knew it was another step to even greater glory .
national
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Radio might help to instil a feeling of national glory and pride, even if the substance did not amount to much as yet.
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Our cathedrals are among our national glories .
past
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It conjures up vague images of past imperialistic glories which are hardly relevant.
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There is still an air of past glory , of semi-decay.
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They were busy restoring it to its past glory .
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Under this cover of tradition and past glory , however, the executive has bustled through informally to seize almost total power.
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They are all old men she has chosen, men in the cloudy twilight of past glories .
personal
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Now McClair is a player Ferguson cherishes because he puts the team cause above personal glory .
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For him, it is strictly about the money and the personal glory and making a living.
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Of course, he had, first of all, a desire for personal glory and gold.
reflected
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Perhaps, after all, Valerie hadn't resented him, grateful for his reflected glory .
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The reflected glory is all Hebburn's.
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The Communists were in control of the unemployed demonstrations, they had the reflected glory of the Bolshevik revolution.
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Walking with you, I wondered if all that reflected glory might prove dangerous.
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I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory .
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I shall bask smugly in your reflected glory - but don't worry!
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She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
■ NOUN
cup
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He earned the club a slice of Cup glory by saving three penalties in a dramatic shoot-out after extra time.
days
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He plunged himself back into work, and 1998 was his finest period since the glory days of the late 70s.
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A: His glory days of campaigning are probably behind him.
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But, despite their huge resources and the backing of Fiat, their glory days are in the past.
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In their glory days the Raiders were a lot of things.
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Its glory days came when Spitfire and Hurricane pilots scrambled to defeat Hitler's Luftwaffe despite overwhelming odds.
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The 1930s were the glory days .
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The glory days are a desert mirage.
morning
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Ivy, foxglove, columbine, morning glory , holly, laurel ... suddenly they all have a sinister aspect.
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His eyes are a violet-blue, the color of ground morning glories , and they radiate intelligence.
years
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They are not like the Steel Curtain that once draped over Pittsburgh during the glory years of the 1970s.
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But the glory years have ended.
■ VERB
bask
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Another of my promotions, if you will allow me to bask a little in his glory .
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His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
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Nigel went on for years basking in the glory of his first book.
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I certainly don't want to bask in any reflected glory .
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A less ambitious painter would have been content merely to bask in the glory that his canvases had earned him.
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She would have basked in the reflected glory of their marriages; she could have boasted of her sons-in-law for ever more.
cover
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In a sense it was inevitable that Kelly should cover himself in glory .
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He wanted to cover himself with glory , and what better way than getting accepted by this new elite.
crown
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The crowning glory is the immense terminal.
reflect
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And, on occasions like last Sunday's Baftas, bathe in reflected glory . % % % Overreaction?
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His boss sat on the forty-first floor and was still basking in the reflected glory of his minion.
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Milton tells us in Paradise Lost that Satan, even after his fall, still dimly reflects his former glory .
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He had seen the reflected glory of kings and princes, experienced the artistic genius of the Renaissance.
restore
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Outside, the orchard has been restored to its former glory .
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But now it's hoped that Longfords may be restored to its former glory .
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Sadly neglected examples of classic pub architecture were restored to their former glory at no small expense.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
What price fame/glory etc?
blaze of publicity/glory
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A blaze of glory, a fury of passion that left them weak and trembling in each other's arms.
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As soon as Hitler's trial was over, the blaze of publicity surrounding him vanished.
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He did not exactly do it in a blaze of glory.
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I am launching my new sport soon in a blaze of publicity.
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Intercar was launched in a blaze of publicity in 1985 as one of the country's first cut-price car supermarkets.
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They went out in a blaze of glory.
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Whenever their conflicting playing schedules allowed, these two attractive superstars of sport managed to meet in a blaze of publicity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The designs reflect the glories of French fashion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But nothing could take the gloss off Townsend's night of glory .
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He was bitter because he couldn't inherit the glory they unwittingly advertised.
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Here the universe of the stereotype is starkly revealed in all its mechanical and mercantile glory .
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His eyes are a violet-blue, the color of ground morning glories, and they radiate intelligence.
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In time, one hopes and trusts that Gilmore will wave his magic wand and refurbish the theater to its former glory .
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It never again recovered its former glory .
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The glory of the third round, of course, is the glory of the non-League clubs.
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The herbaceous Paeonias are part of the glory of flower borders in the early summer.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the Gentlemen had not reckoned with a Bastide newly heartened by glorying in Westbourne's ignominy.
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He was a regular visitor at Dotty Harmer's, glorying in the variety of animals to be found there.
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Oh, I glory in inconsistencies, as you know full well.
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What station-building remained was increasingly to reflect the functional, geometrical approach, stressing cubes and cylinders and glorying in reinforced concrete.